Originally Posted by Woodrow

Sadly the word Zoo is too broad of a word. Some Zoo's are very fine facilities that treat and protect the wildlife for both the sake of the wildlife and to please and educate people.

Other things called Zoo's are mere Animal exhibits with no goal except to extract a profit from visitors who come out of morbid curiosity and not in search of knowledge or actual enjoyment of Allah's(swt) creatures. Those should be banned as they are a disgrace and a mistreatment of Allah's(swt) creations.

I totally agree.
W'salaam

Originally Posted by amirah_87

ass salaamu alaykum

I think that most animals are better off in zoo's we're they get looked after treated if they're sick given medicine and etc
..and not once have i heard of animals being abused in public zoo's (if you guys have then plz fill me in !).

i guess it is better for them to live in the wild but...............

ok...talkin' about the caging situation .. you know how the chickens come in cages....and then they're slaughtered and boxed away.....
are you gonna boycott that too and all the animals who come in this way!

just a suggestion...plz don't bite my head off guys .....LOL!

wa alaykum ass salaam ppl

dont believe in zoos either..maybe those animals that were saved from extinction because of zoos were meant to die out...its a jungle out there...survival of the fittest..

Originally Posted by muzna

dont believe in zoos either...

Well,...they do exist! i can prove it !

wats wrong wiv da zoos man ? they cool.

we get to see da monkeys and da oldest sheep. and th reptile house is d coolest

but yeah d animals dont find it very comfortable in der little cubby holes.

we shud elp them be free. like in a safari park. th zoos ova here r still bit better. but some zoos dont kno how to keep da animals. and th animals look fed up and dey pace bac an forth in ther cubby holes...only stoppin to give u a look as if to say
'wat u starin at dude'
an den they shrug and start pacin again....and they give u anothr expression which clearly looks like theyr saying 'u cant help me...my life is here'
so wat do we do ? nofin....so da animal is right

but they r doin somthin now...ppl r makin safari parks...dey r still better :brother:

some have made the point that the animals would be better left in the wild.
everyday we are destroying habitat - so zoos are becoming more important.
and as glo said - they have good captive breeding programs.
san diego zoo is pretty decent. they also have a separate "wild animal park".
i was given a tour of behind the scenes at the reptile house and it was fascinating. they have a whole lot of breeding projects underway and even "behind the scenes", the animals were kept and treated well.
of course, if we destroy all their habitat, i'm not sure what good it would do to have some survivors of extinct animals in cages.
not a cheerful thought!
but i agree - some zoos are shameful.

Zoos are most definitely forbidden in Islam...A creature that prays devoutly to ALLAH in a cage for no reason...astaghfirullah

Originally Posted by Hijrah

Zoos are most definitely forbidden in Islam...A creature that prays devoutly to ALLAH in a cage for no reason...astaghfirullah

really brother? Its true... i "THINK" theres daleel which supports that we be kinds to animals aswell... hmm, u might b right. What about safari's? Are they ok?

Some Zoo's treat their animals better than some parents treat their children.

Keyword: Some.

Tru akhee........very tru.

Originally Posted by Far7an

Some Zoo's treat their animals better than some parents treat their children.

Keyword: Some.

LOL!!!!!!!!!! LOOOOL!!!!



this might be true *still * lol

Yeah, some parents treat there kids like donkeys

silly!

I used bro's key word some!!

Originally Posted by glo

I can see your point.

But on the other hand you have to remember that zoos maintain genepools, and that some species would be extinct if it wasn't for zoos.
The are also often involved in research, and try to reintroduce animals back into the wild.

So not everything zoos do and stand for is bad!

Peace.

Asalaamualaikum

i was pretty much going to say all that Glo said, so i agree with Glo.

Originally Posted by Abd'Majid

really brother? Its true... i "THINK" theres daleel which supports that we be kinds to animals aswell... hmm, u might b right. What about safari's? Are they ok?

wouldn't safaris be in the same category

I'd boycott this sucker:



How would he like being that croc?

'Crikey' indeed.